Improved skate



@with tetes genet @man GEORGE SCOTT, AND JOHN W. SMITH, 0F BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS,

.LSSIGNORS T0 'IHEMSELVES AND JAMES SMITH, 0F SAME PLAGE.

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Beit known thst lo, GIORGI Soort, o citizen of St- Johns, in theFrovncopf New Brunswick, but new redding et Besten, in the county efSull'elh, ond State of Massnehusetu, end Jeux W. Sums, ef said Besten,han made s new and neeful invention having reference to Skates; und dohereby declare the same to he fully deserbod in the followingspeotlcstion, end represented in the sceempenylng (Innings, of whichlFigure 1 is s. top view.

Figure 2, s side elevation.

8, s bottom View, smi Figure 4, s kenner-ss section e! e skate prnvdedwith on: invention.

With the foeffrest ef the uid skate, there s eonxblned l. realtor undtwo runnen; one portleulnr objeet nf the rocker being to enable n personto spin or turn llvent on m oxs going through the middle of the akute.

In the drawings, A denotes the feat-piece nr rest, which we commonlyconstrue; el weed, and with n nece er benito, provided with on inclinedfrontI b, the snme Being to extend underneath. the veneno teebeolc e ofthe weke.;- B, end two runners e c, such henk boing formed ss shown in5gg. l sed 2, und more perteulerly in ig. 5, which is s front end viewet' the skate. The benk a, h3 extending underneath und against the beakc, servcsto nid in keeping the oewest down upon its supporta. The henk eeprw'es also es n guard to prevent he feel-rex! frombew injured byermtnnl of if.: toe with objeots. The rec'- r B is arranged like onordinary runner, slant is, midway nuderneeth the fooffrest, extends fromthe heel to che toe thereof, und is semereulnr, er about so, ntransverse section nt. its lower edge. It in connected with the t-rorunners by ernssccuneetione d d' d, they being arranged ot equo) dimmen:from it, und en opposite sides of it, in manner es represented. Enel ofsuch runners hns its lover edge angular, or mnde like that of s commonxntrnnner, The lower edge of the rocker is te extend below those uf thetwo runners, in order that o person while using the akute may easilyspin or swing nreimd on the rocker. Il: sluiting under ethercircumstances, he will support hirnuelf by new: of the roc-ker nmleither of the runners, or by ons of the latter alone. The mid roekernndthe two runners are connected with the foot-res: hy means of serewssf,which gn down through mill rest and screw luto standards g h, erectedorrtlxo cross sections d d, there being three of auch standards., viz:51,1', Il, extending up to washers o,lc, l, arranged on their topa. The:washer l, which is next the heel at the skate, han e rib m pro.

jecting upward from it ns shown n figs. 6 :md T, one of which is l:s LnpView of the Washer, und the other n transverse reellen of it, ond theheel-screw n. The snd rib is designed to enter n corresponding groovemede in the feet-reet our it, :sud also into the niek w formed in theheed p ot' the seid screw. By so doing, the rib prevents thc washer, aswell s: the hcelecrew, from revolving. The lmehserew is a remmen weedscrew, omi pones up through n hole in the feet-rest, nud inv held rmly,so' ns not te revolve, relatively te the foot-rest,

l while the lutter may ne in the net of revolving or being revolved forthe purpose of einher screwing the screw inta the-heel ol' n persen'ehoot, or unseren-ing it therefrom. The obere mede et applying theheel-nerew 4to the m est, und holding it l'rom revolving relaztivelythereto, s vnlunhle, ns lt enables a person lo easily remove v the mefoot-rest, and substitute for if. a longer or n shorter one, nrcircumstances may require, :nel

besides il. ts ef o commenl wped seran' being employed :u a; heel-screw.Strap bola r r go through the foetreat laterally, wget may he providedwith e series of spurs, t, t, t, to ente the sole ofthe bont when plowedon the said rest. A A

We claim n.1 our invention, tlzgarrnngcment, ss well ns the eombnntion,of the rocker B, nud the tno run. ners CC, and the t`eot-rest A.

Wc also claim the combination of the fece-rest with the inclined we henka arranged nu lt, and to operate lith the beak e, when applied thereto,substantially ns set. forth..

'f" We xlso elnx the mede of applying the heel-scrcw te the skate, riz:hy extending it nplthrough the feotrest, and supporting its head in shearing, to extend into the nick ol' the screw, ns described.

GEORGE SCOTT,

- JOHN W. SMITH.

Witnesses;

R. H. Emu, Gaone: Axnnnn's.

